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Richard Luscombe

Phones and iPad of New York mayor Eric Adams were seized by FBI, report says

Eric Adams at city hall in New York this week. The New York Times said the equipment was returned to the mayor ‘within a matter of days’.
Eric Adams at city hall in New York this week. The New York Times said the equipment was returned to the mayor ‘within a matter of days’. Photograph: Ed Reed/AP

Electronic devices including at least two mobile phones belonging to New York City mayor Eric Adams were seized by the FBI as the agency escalated a corruption investigation into his victorious 2021 campaign, the New York Times reported Friday.

It follows an FBI raid earlier this month on the home of Brianna Suggs, Adams’s leading campaign fundraiser, in which agents reportedly confiscated two laptop computers and three cellphones.

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